Over the two days of Telematics Update’s Content and Apps for Automotive Conference there was a lot to be learned about the state of the industry and where people think it’s going. We covered the industry from end to end and touched on all the leading technology frameworks and business models. The event as a [...]
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Content and Apps for Automotive by Telematics Update Wrap-Up
December 13th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Featured, Telematics 
Tags: 2010, apps, automotive, convergence, distracted driving, DoT, driver distraction, Emerging Tech, infotainment, tech, technology, Telematics 
Comments OffMyFord Touch Review From Mossberg
October 11th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We’ve spent a lot of time covering Ford Sync and the upcoming MyFord Touch systems. Grandpa Mossberg had an opportunity to spend sometime with the new MyFord system and his thoughts can be summarized in two lines from the article. The layout of most of the displays is clear and logical, and the voice-command system [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: automotive, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, mobile, mossberg, MyFord, MyFord Touch, News, review, technology, Telematics, wsj Comments OffFord Sync Fact Sheet
October 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Download the Ford Sync Fact Sheet PDF 1-Pager or read it all below. Overview Ford SYNC®, co-developed with Microsoft and using Nuance Communications voice recognition technology, allows customers to bring digital media players and Bluetooth®-enabled mobile phones into their vehicles and operate the devices via voice commands or with the steering wheel’s redundant audio controls. SYNC is an agnostic [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Featured, Ford Sync / Touch, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, Ford, ford sync, Ford Sync / Touch, Sync, technology, Telematics Comments OffStatus Update: Onstar likes Facebook
September 8th, 2010 Jeff Shariat BusinessWeek.com reports that OnStar will be adding Facebook to it’s bag of tricks GM owners can use while driving. Nothing official from OnStar yet, but it sounds like this is going to happen sometime this month. Clearly OnStar has to up it’s infotainment services to compete with Ford Sync (and the other players bringing up [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, onstar, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffDriver Distraction Series Earns Pulitzer Prize
April 19th, 2010 Jeff Shariat If you haven’t been keeping up with Matt Richtel’s New York Times series of articles on driver distraction now would probably be a good time to start. The Pulitzer Prize committee (it’s a committee, right?) has awarded a Pulitzer Prize to: Matt Richtel and members of The New York Times Staff for incisive work, in print [...]
Posted in News, Safety + Security Tags: automotive, driver distraction, new york times, News, tech, technology, Telematics 1 Comment »Eric Schmidt Says, “Mobile Is The Future”
April 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Google’s Eric Schmidt has been on the campaign trail for mobile technology for I don’t know how long. His talk at Atmosphere (Google’s come-to-cloud-computing conference) was about mobile and the future of technology. He didn’t talk about it’s impact on automotive, but we will. “We understand that the new rule is mobile first,” Schmidt said. [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, google, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffRear-Seat Entertainment Sales to Double by 2015
April 13th, 2010 Jeff Shariat iSuppli is forecasting that by 2015 worldwide sales of rear-seat entertainment systems will almost double their 2009 level (of 3.1 million units) reaching 5.6million units (with the US accounting for ~50%). With the oncoming proliferation of apps and advanced connected applications the RSE market is a huge opportunity. I’ve already spent some time talking about [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, forecasts, google, infotainment, real-time data, rear seat entertainment, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »App Downloads Will Near 6Billion in 2010
April 7th, 2010 Jeff Shariat ABI Research reports they expect just under 6 billion mobile application downloads in 2010 (more than double 2009 volume). To be clear, this is a forecast of downloads, not the total number of applications that will be available. The iPhone is expected to continue leading the charge (> 3Billion downloads) by a large margin with [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: android, apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, google, gps, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, technology, Telematics Comments OffProduct Spotlight: Continental AutoLinQ
April 6th, 2010 Jeff Shariat AutoLinQ is Continental’s Connected Services Platform for the car. Based on the Google Android OS the system will allow users to create and download applications directly to the in-vehicle system. Continental’s ‘Always On’ concept is built around allowing the user to interact with the vehicle through various ‘views’: Mobile View The user’s view from their [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: android, api, apps, autolinq, continental, convergence, Emerging Tech, google, infotainment, navigation, navteq, open source, technology, Telematics 1 Comment »Where Do Kids Fit Into Telematics Strategies?
April 5th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Where do kids fall into the world of in-car apps? In the April 2010 edition of Fast Company Anya Kamenetz talks about how technology is impacting childhood creativity and the way kids learn. It’s a great read and you should definitely click through the link at the bottom, but first I want to talk about [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: android, apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, LBS, Sync, technology, Telematics 5 Comments »Ford Sync Has The Lead, Will It Hold On To It?
April 1st, 2010 Jeff Shariat It’s a new foundation for the ultimate mobile device. The automobile will never be the same. As the mobile web (i.e. sites specifically designed to be viewed on mobile devices) is being replaced by mobile apps and sites that are dual purpose (i.e. the standard site can be viewed reliably in a mobile browser) Google [...]
Posted in Etc..., Ford Sync / Touch Tags: api, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, MyFord, MyFord Touch, real-time data, Safety + Security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics, twitter 2 Comments »The Dangers of GPS, ‘The Simpsons’-Style
March 29th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Let’s kick-off the week with something easy on the eyes and the brain, shall we? In this clip from a recent Simpsons episode, Homer drives the kids to school, but reminds us to never blindly follow anyone (especially a GPS). Now, maybe if the system he used had real-time data connectivity (or if he had [...]
Posted in Etc... Tags: automotive, funny, gps, infotainment, mobile, technology, Telematics 3 Comments »Smartphones and Embedded Systems
March 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We know that apps are coming to the car and that movement is no doubt led by smartphones like the iPhone and Nexus One. Over at Telematics Update Andrew Tolve discusses, ‘The Smartphone: Friend or Foe of In-car Infotainment?” My take away from the article is that the answer is, it’s both…and I would tend [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone app, mobile, News, real-time data, real-time traffic, Sync, technology, Telematics 3 Comments »Location Awareness Keeps On Rolling
March 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat In his article on NYT.com David Carr talks about the pervasiveness of location based services at South by Southwest. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and more have introduced location enabled apps or features and we are just at the leading edge of adoption among users. In particular, Carr talks about Gowalla and Foursquare, to location based [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, mobile, real-time data, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffApplication Spotlight: AppSpace.com
March 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com has a post on AppSpace.com, a recommendation engine for smartphone apps. The number of apps available for the iPhone, Android OS and Blackberry is rapidly approach a combined 200,000. Wading through the sewage that constitute most apps to find that diamond in the rough can be a daunting task. For some of [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: api, apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffHacker Uses Telematics System for Revenge
March 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Alright, that headline is a bit much… It’s true though and re-raises some security concerns… Apparently Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, was laid off from the Texas Auto Center and decided he’d use a telematics system installed on some cars sold at that auto center to be very annoying. He used the system to activate the horns [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Safety + Security Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, Safety + Security, security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics 4 Comments »Application Spotlight: Aha Mobile
March 18th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Aha Mobile bills itself as interactive personalized radio and aims to deliver a customized ‘radio station’ of streaming audio content created from web and local information relevant to the user. That is, Aha Mobile will give you a customized traffic report, your facebook / twitter updates, yelp reviews and move all based on your preferences [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: app, application spotlight, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, real-time data, real-time traffic, streaming audio, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »Smart and Safe Automotive Electronics
March 5th, 2010 Jeff Shariat George’s Blog Space.com takes a broad look at smart and safe automotive electronics. In fact, on average automobile manufacturers spend $2000 on electronic systems for every vehicle that comes off the line — in incredible increase from the $110-per-car budget of the early 1970s. This huge increase in spending is reflected in everything from engine [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: electronics, Emerging Tech, Safety + Security, technology, Telematics Comments OffChallenges with Telematics Adoption
March 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We’ve previously discussed some issues with the telematics business case and while its clear to many that the market is there someone does have to make the numbers work before any feature can be broadly adopted. On Telematics Update, Andrew Tolve highlights that CES this year marked the first time OEMs were perceived to be [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: convergence, DoT, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, iphone, LBS, mbrace, mobile, MyFord, MyFord Touch, onstar, real-time data, real-time traffic, Safety + Security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »Telematics – Searching For the Business Case
February 22nd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Over at John Day’s Automotive Electronics News Ralf Hug does a nice job discussing some of the challenges of justifying and launching telematics services in major OEMs. In any organization the business case needs to be developed for any project and although most major OEMs are offering some level of telematics services there are still [...]
Posted in Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: automotive, business, editorial, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, mbrace, News, onstar, safety connect, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »
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